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• Redacted@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We here at EvilDork Corp believe the future is in the Torment Nexus!

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• 8andage@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Peter Thiel: We can use technology to circumvent public opinion

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  • pulsey@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    who needs democracy when you have technology, right?

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  • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Who is this particular flavor of wanker?

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  • DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Who is this POS?

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• tino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Protect children by giving away your identity to corporations

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dynamic prices in the grocery store.

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  • tino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    years ago, a big boss of an evil hotel company I worked was doing a AMA and got asked “where do we draw the line on ethics?”. His answer was “at the end of the day, if you don’t feel comfortable telling your mother what you did today, then don’t do it” I loved this answer and used this very often.

    Then a few months later, he directly made us work on the dirtiest geopricing / yelding features I ever saw. I guess the real question to ask during that day was “where do your mother draw the line on ethics?”

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s where he draws the line on ethics… for everyone else.

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    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You should have called his mother and explained it to her and asked if she agreed?

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    • pulsey@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      maybe his mother died?

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      made us work

      So, you didn’t draw the line there either?

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• ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  …motherfuckers are upvoting a crosspost from POLITICALMEMES in what is supposed to be a shitposting community. Y’all are fucking masochists.

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  • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My thought is that it’s devoid of nuance (part of what makes it funny) so therefore it’s shitty?

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s designed to piss of pro-AI folks. The trolling is what makes it a shitpost.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Surelly it’s at minimum a post about shit.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I only use Lenny from the toilet on company time. By this definition, everything is a shit post…

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For some reason political memes disappeared for me. It’s just blank .

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• Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m a huge fan of the attention annihilator, personally.

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• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.

  Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the drugs.

    But anyone who buys crypro for “speculation” deserves to get their money-handling privileges revoked.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Disrupting the market by breaking laws. Dont worry, there is a computer between me and the crime so its totally cool and totally legal.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Break laws and move things.

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• PokerChips@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I spent a good couple minutes trying to figure out what the illegal crab company is. I might need glasses.

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  • Johnmannesca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The crab people from South Park didn’t renew their T-Mobile authorized retail license again?

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Old Bay has some major skeletons in the closet

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pediculosis pubis

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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fake money for criminals is awesome I use it when im doing criminal activity online.

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• teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honestly the illegal cab company has been the most useful for me. Sometimes my car breaks down.

  Mind you, the best illegal service I ever used was Dream market. Very convenient for buying acid and weed.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I agree. Set prices are a game changer especially if you are visiting in another country. Drivers are less likely to rip off tourists and communication is a lot better.

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• oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No “musician ripoff platform which funds AI weapons development” option…?

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  • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet William Shakespeare

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m really enjoying

  • Confederate forums for furries
  • Encrypted piracy

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kessler syndrome generator controlled by billionaire

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  airbnb was cool, i had fond memories of meeting interesting new people this way. then it enshittified and is now generally worse than hotels every time.

  so there is no longer a marketplace where you can get the house sharing experience, which is sad.

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• Retail4068@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I love how you all still screech over Airbnb even after all the data has shown they aren’t raising your mortgage and that bull crap.

  I love Airbnb and Uber Lyft. The taxi industry DESERVED a good fucking. 90% of them scumbags who couldn’t show up on time and were actively trying to rip you off. Scumbag class and I’m happy Uber forced some accountability in the ride services sector. It’s a billion times better and service has improved GREATLY in the states.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Uber is horribly exploitative of their drivers.

    And AirBNB is hated because it increases the landlord class.

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    • Retail4068@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Zero evidence. 

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  • tino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d like to see all the data about Airbnb. My knowledge of Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome tells a different story.

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    • Retail4068@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0261517719301992

      papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=35169…

      researchgate.net/…/349968414_What_Happens_When_Ai…

      academia.edu/…/The_Sharing_Economy_as_a_Local_Eco…

      link.springer.com/article/…/s00168-024-01328-4

      www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0094119021000383

      While none of these are definitive I think they paint a pretty decent picture that they are pros and cons. The rising price of mortgages are conflated with renovations and economic growth. This growth tends to be in local growth, not corporations. With home values being tied to value there are some expected cons to this as well. 

      It’s a complex model and instead of making them the Boogeyman we should understand the positive and negatives.

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  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t disagree that the taxi industry needed a good shaking, and Uber/Lyft have brought a lot of convenience and features to the party compared to a traditional taxi service, but that doesn’t automatically make Uber the good guys in the equation.

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  • PokerChips@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Your statement defies supply and demand. Maybe take an economics course.

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    • Retail4068@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      👌👍

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• cuerdo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The “I know where you live” device.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We peaked in 2012. Mayans (?) had it right.

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• tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fuck cab regulations, fuck hotel regulations, fuck banks, and FUCK ‘AI’

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Every teenager shouts “fuck regulations” until they get fucked over by an unregulated market. Case in point: 90% of crypto.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If they’d simply held since birth, they’d be rich!

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fuck regulation! I hate it when my plane has wings, my water doesn’t even contain lead and the trucker I’m passing had some sleep in the last 20h!

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But the stock market is so bigly.

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• MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fake money for criminals at least has a happy ending (getting to laugh at those who went all in.)

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s kinda sad watching the economy I grew up in come to an end. Who knows where all this will end up - I can only guarantee that it’ll be weird.

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• maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The plagiarism machine is eroding any moat a company like Disney has for gatekeeping media, the way its going a tiny group of people can replace a studio.

  The cab company alternative was a taxi, which was many times a government granted monopoly known for having extortionate prices.

  Using a public ledger that can be tied directly to a person is an awfully silly way to hide a crime, exchanging cash or some other untraceable medium of exchange is far safer.

  Hotels I can agree with, but only because zoning laws prevent density from forming automatically when theres more demand for scarce real estate.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Disney has for gatekeeping media,

    Disney hired real artists. Their artists did such amazing work that everyone copied Disney which caused the gatekeeping. Nothing stopped artist from not copying Disney to create their own works like Pixar before they were bought by Disney. AI art comes from training on existing art. So its not expanding culture to cut and paste existing art. It’s a great time saver for home users to create art that is out of their ability. But its not a substitute for real artists.

    The cab company alternative was a taxi, which was a government granted monopoly known for having extortionate prices.

    Which existed because to prevent congestion, accountability against criminal acts, and maintained an employee/employer relationship. Despite its drawbacks, employees have more rights than gig economy workers.

    I guess what’s next is an app Airplane company that ignores all regulations and lands on parking lots because it will be cheaper than following the laws. So what if a few people die if tens of thousands save money and have more convenience.

    Using a public ledger that can be tied directly to a person

    Its far more easy to trace money in a bank account or made through a credit card than crypto. In most cases crypto is completely untraceable until turned into real money that’s deposited into a bank.

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    • maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well USD is widely used and distributed, and there is zero way for them to track the majority of bills which flow all over the world.

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gen AI will erode all originality and make any kind of career in the arts impossible.

    The cheaper taxis are only possible on the backs of people who don’t understand car depreciation or the fact they don’t have any kind of pension or social security benefits. The gig economy is a scam.

    There’s tons of crypto coins that don’t have a ledger. None of them have regulations.

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    • maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Agree to disagree, I think it opens up the doors to average people making large projects that would have never been possible before. Children will love making videos just as I loved online flash animations and using 3d Movie Maker growing up, the doomerism is astounding when companies like Disney have grown so fat and garish.

      Again taxi companies are already gouging us and this is the reality you are trying to save us from, Taxi companies also provide a crap service. I find Uber a far better service.

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